Why a Popular Vote isn't the Answer

Day 2,028, 14:53 Published in USA USA by Israel Stevens


Editor’s Note: I’m certainly not saying that our current system is perfect. It’s not. But that doesn’t mean that the opposite is better/

In the aftermath of the most recent Unity Election, there have been many calls to completely overhaul the system. With the most drastic change discarding the electoral system and moving to a pure popular vote.

For all of Unity’s faults and problems (and they are numerous), moving to a popular system is not the best way forward.


I’m going to use two very different Party Presidents for my argument. The first is Othere, Party President of the USWP, currently the third largest party in America with 513 people.
The second is Candor, Party President of the NoS Dive Bar, currently the 23rd largest party in America with 10 people.

In a popular system, these two would have equal power. Candor’s vote for President would carry the same weight as Othere’s. No strings attached. One person, equals one vote.

Why is this a problem?

Because Othere’s party is Fifty times larger than Candor’s.

It is no secret that on Presidential election day, the many two clickers that our country houses simply look at which candidate their party endorsed, and vote for him. It’s the way it’s always been. It’s why Party Endorsements have always been the most important aspect of any Presidential Campaign. Win the biggest Party Endorsements, and their voting bloc of two clickers can carry you into the Whitehouse.

It’s Presidential Campaigning 101.


So why then, should Candor’s vote in the NoS Dive Bar primary, carry the same weight as Othere’s? Whichever candidate Othere’s party endorses is going to receive a significant bloc of voters on the 5th.
The NoS Dive Bar does not have anywhere close to the same voting power that the USWP does. No 6th party has the same voting power of a Top 5. It’s simply math.

Any vote cast in a top 5 primary, carries with it the weight of hundreds more two clickers. Those are the votes that actually matter on the 5th, because of game mechanics.

Reducing the election to a popular vote strips the Top 5 parties of their inherent power. It makes the hard work that they have put into building a powerful party, worthless.

What is the point of a Top 5 Party Endorsement if it can be usurped by a handful of people?

Our current system is by no means perfect. But moving to a Popular Vote is a knee jerk reaction that is not the right decision.





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